Most of my successes in life have come from learning how to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. Like I said, I just want to get better.
“you teach without tailoring, you come off as irrelevant. If you tailor but don’t teach, you risk sounding like every other supplier. If you take control but offer no value, you risk being simply annoying.”
― The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
― The Challenger Sale: Taking Control of the Customer Conversation
“Many arbitrage vendors get shut down right after Christmas because they sell thousands of products to customers who don’t receive them until February.”
― Ecommerce Evolved: The Essential Playbook To Build, Grow & Scale A Successful Ecommerce Business
― Ecommerce Evolved: The Essential Playbook To Build, Grow & Scale A Successful Ecommerce Business
“The essence of the CEO’s job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.”
― The CEO and Board Member's Survival Guide: Strategic Governance For Small to Mid-Cap Entrepreneurial Organizations That Capitalizes on Opportunities and Minimizes Risk
― The CEO and Board Member's Survival Guide: Strategic Governance For Small to Mid-Cap Entrepreneurial Organizations That Capitalizes on Opportunities and Minimizes Risk
“Communicate formally, informally, in board meetings and in private meetings away from the board, collectively and individually.”
― The CEO and Board Member's Survival Guide: Strategic Governance For Small to Mid-Cap Entrepreneurial Organizations That Capitalizes on Opportunities and Minimizes Risk
― The CEO and Board Member's Survival Guide: Strategic Governance For Small to Mid-Cap Entrepreneurial Organizations That Capitalizes on Opportunities and Minimizes Risk
“The most insidious part of the traditional marketing model is that “big blowout launch” mythology. Of course, equally seductive is the “build it and they will come” assumption that too many people associate with the Web.”
― Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
― Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the Future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising
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